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Pacquiao to undergo most grueling training vs De la Hoya
ABS-CBN News, Sat, 06 Sep 2008
World Boxing Council lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao is set to undergo perhaps the most grueling training in his boxing career for his December 6 fight against the much bigger ten-time world champion Oscar de la Hoya.
The Filipino boxing champ said that prized coach Freddie Roach has alread Read Full Story >>>Pacquio denies he will run against incumbent South Cotabato representative
By Isagani Palma, The Manila Times, Sat, 06 Sep 2008
GENERAL SANTOS CITY: The official spokes?man of World Boxing Council lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao said on Friday that allegations of a comeback fight between him and incumbent Rep. Darlene Antonino-Custodio in 2010 is misleading.
Earlier, media reports, and text messages that went into ci Read Full Story >>> Edwin Valero Wants The Big Names at 135-Pounds
By Mark Vester, BoxingScene.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
On the shelf since his June battering of Japan's Takehiro Shimada, Edwin Valero is looking for much bigger fights at the lightweight limit of 135-pounds. He recently vacated his WBA super featherweight title, citing weight issues in his August 31 letter that was sent over to the sanctioning body.
Read Full Story >>> Can Pacquiao-De la Hoya Outdo ?The World Awaits??
By John Chavez, Boxing Confidential, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Last year I decided to dine at one of the most anticipated restaurant openings in my general area. The build-up had been monumental as even the most skeptical of restaurant critics had deemed this establishment as potentially being able to change the entire dining experience.
Nothing but the bes Read Full Story >>> UNITY IN PACLAND
By Brad Cooney, Boxing Herald, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Boxing Herald's Brad Cooney jumps into The Proverbial Phone Booth with Pacland.ph's creator Dong Secuya.
Dong discusses how Pacland began, his relationship with Manny Pacquiao as well as Manny's influence on the Filipino people.
Bo Read Full Story >>> KATSIDIS IN FIGHT OF HIS LIFE AGAINST DIAZ
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Michael Katsidis, the Aussie fighter who has been regarded as the new Arturo Gatti because the only thing he knows to do is to go forward says his fight against former world champion Juan ?Baby Bull? Diaz is the fight of his life.
Katsidis has said more than once that with the king of slam-bang Read Full Story >>> FEARLESS FIGHTING ON IBC 13 TODAY
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
The fastest growing sport in the Philippines - Mixed Martial Arts - where fighters battle each other within the confines of the Octagon will be seen on IBC 13 at 7:00 p.m. today.
The sport has attracted a large audience am Read Full Story >>> JOEY GIARDELLO PASSES AWAY
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Former WBC and WBA middleweight champion Joey Giardello has passed away in New Jersey. He was 78.
Regarded as the greatest middleweight to come out of Philadelphia, Giardello won the title with a 15 round decision over Dick Tiger Read Full Story >>> DIAZ-KATSIDIS FINAL PRESSCON PHOTOS
PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Former Three-Time World Lightweight Champion Juan Diaz (left) and Former World Lightweight Champion Michael Katsidis pose for the media on September 4, 2008 at the final press conference for their September 6, 2008 figh Read Full Story >>> For a happy ending
By Ed Picson, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Although every indication points to an imminent fight between boxing titans Oscar de la Hoya and Manny Pacquiao, the raging debate on the aptness of the match remains unabated.
Much of the howling comes from those who are vigorously opposed to the idea, citing safety and plain logic (or the p Read Full Story >>> Mayweather Sr Possibly Out As De La Hoya's Head Trainer
By John Martinez, EastSideBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
It was reported earlier this week that trainer extraordinaire, Floyd Mayweather Sr. would begin his new duties as head overseer of IBO light welterweight champion Ricky ?The Hitman? Hatton?s preparations for his upcoming duel with the IBF light welterweight boss, Paulie Malignaggi on November 22 in Read Full Story >>> Fight can last 12 rounds ? Roach
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
While Freddie Roach has been describing Oscar De La Hoya in interviews as somebody who can no longer pull the trigger and that Manny Pacquiao has genuine chances of scoring a knockout, the hard-nosed trainer with the Clark Kent glasses said he has a gut feeling the fight will go 12 rounds.
"If Read Full Story >>> Big payday for scalpers looms ahead
By Nick Giongco, The Manila Bulletin, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Tickets were so hard to come by during Oscar De la Hoya?s fight with Floyd Mayweather last year that a ringside seat that had a face value of $ 2,000 sold for as high as $ 15,000 in the black market.
If somebody like Mayweather can add up to the excitement and hype to a De La Hoya headliner, what Read Full Story >>> Roach seeking bigger sparmates for Pacquiao
By Marc Anthony Reyes, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
MANILA, Philippines?The search is on for Manny Pacquiao?s sparmates, who must be at least four inches taller than the reigning pound-for-pound king and willing to take the Filipino?s double-barreled fistic assault.
Trainer Freddie Roach Thursday announced on the website www.boxingscene.com that h Read Full Story >>> Jaro vows to dethrone Sosa
By Joaquin Henson, The Philippine Star, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
Oriental champion Sonny Boy Jaro of Silay City, Negros Occidental, said yesterday he?s not intimidated by facing WBC lightflyweight champion Edgar Sosa in Mexico City on Sept. 27 and vowed to bring back the title against the odds of fighting on hostile territory.
Jaro?s cousin and manager Aljoe J Read Full Story >>> DOMINGO CAN FIGHT FOR A WORLD CROWN AFTER SEPT. 14
By Salven L. Lagumbay, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
ALA Boy Michael Domingo is most likely going to inch closer to a world title fight should he beat ex-world champ Ratanachai Sor Vorapin on September 14 in the mainer of the "Daytime Boxing" card at the New Cebu Coliseum.
Read Full Story >>> Domingo?s Sunday fight to determine career
By Edri Aznar, Sun.Star Cebu, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
WITH a former world champion and a seasoned fighter as an opponent, World Boxing Organization Oriental bantamweight champion Micheal Domingo has his biggest test yet on Sept. 14 to determine the future of his professional boxing career.
Domingo will be defending his newly acquired crown against Read Full Story >>> IBO PRESIDENT HANDLED REVIEW OF CONTROVERSIAL TITLE FIGHT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
International Boxing Organization president Ed Levine says he personally ?administered the review process? undertaken by the IBO following a formal protest lodged by promoter Rodney Berman over the hugely controversial loss of South Africa?s Zolani Marali (19-2, 13 KO?s) to Australia?s Billy Dib (21 Read Full Story >>> Oscar De La Hoya is pickin' little with Manny Pacquiao
By Tim Smith, New York Daily News, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
After HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant mentioned a few months ago that Oscar De La Hoya should fight Manny Pacquiao, De La Hoya said he started thinking about the possibility.
"It stuck to my head and it kept on lingering in my head and I kept on thinking about it over the months," De La Hoya sa Read Full Story >>> PACMAN-DE LAHOYA DANGER: WEIGHT WOES!
By Pedro Fernandez, RingTalk.com, Fri, 05 Sep 2008
FREDDIE ROACH NOT AS SMART AS ACRI?
San Francisco, CA- With the great size disparity between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao, the ?timing? of the weigh in is indeed important. Why? I will let an Athletic Commission head, Greg Sirb of Pennsylvania explain it to you. ?If I were Pacquiao, and a Read Full Story >>>
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